Scale up your startup

About the program

Poland Prize by AdVentures is a program designed for startups and teams wanting to do business in Poland and scale it. We are working with a set of big companies that can become customers of the teams that we will work with. By joining our experts and those of our partners we want to give startups the best chance to succeed!

You have a solution for industry? Interested in finding a customer among biggest companies in Poland and some of the biggest in Europe? Get a 50k equity-free grant to support implementation and additional 12k in expert services to help you get established and adjust your solution to fit customer’s need.

Soon we are starting our roadtrips through CEE, Israel and Kazakhstan to find the best startups.

We are the team experienced in working with large corporations and startups from CEE. We have been working with Deutsche Telekom subsidiaries across Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Orange, Olimp Laboratories and many others. We have been designing acceleration programs funded with private and public money. We provide corporations and VCs with scouting and implementation services. We help startups in finding and assessing investors.

The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP) is involved in the implementation of national and international programmes financed from the EU structural funds, state budget and multiannual programmes of the European Commission. As a key authority responsible for creating a business-friendly environment in Poland, PARP contributes to the creation and effective implementation of the state policy related to enterprise, innovation and staff adaptability.

What we are offering

up to

€50k

equity-free grant

up to

€12k

in expert services

one of

5

large companies as your customers

We are looking for

Startups or teams who

Prototype

Have a solution or a working prototype that can be tested and implemented

Scale Up

Want to scale up their business with large businesses

51%

Shares

Majority of shares must be held by non-Polish citizens

Where do you need to be?

Stage and product

For us to be able to provide you with the best acceleration program, ideally you would have already:

a working prototype

or

some research to prove your technology is working

or

customers.

If you will be able to provide us with a prototype or way to verify your solution during our roadtrip or at the application stage that would give you a great advantage!

Participation in Poland Prize by Ad Ventures requires being in Poland for the duration of the program and launching your product as well as registering a legal entity in Poland.

Areas

Biotechnology

New Materials

Energy

Industry 4.0

Electromobility

Chemistry

Space Technologies

We will post more information about our partners’ needs and interest soon. If you want to be up to date follow us on facebook!

Our roadtrip

1 month, 2 teams, 14 countries

Our team will be travelling a lot to find the best teams for our program. During our roadtrip we will visit following countries:

Ukraine

Belarus

Lithuania

Latvia

Estonia

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Hungary

Romania

Bulgaria

Croatia

Slovenia

Israel

Kazakhstan

Follow us on our facebook profile for latest updates on our trip. If you are a startup from these countries and you would like to know more about Poland Prize and the way how we can cooperate send us a message. We would be happy to meet you and answer any questions!

We are concentrating our scouting mainly on Central and Eastern Europe as well as Israel and Kazakhstan but we are happy to meet and work with teams from any location in the world.

What you get?

Money and services

Every startup accepted into the program will receive:

up to €50k equity-free grant in cash,

up to€12k in expert services to help you get established and adjust your solution to fit your potential big customer’s needs,

Acceleration

I get qualified to the program, what now?

1. You and your team members (up to 3) will get a free ticket to Poland. If you need a VISA, we will provide you with access to a special dedicated VISA track and so you will get it in a fast and convenient way.

2. After arriving in Poland we will help you to set up a legal entity here (it is crucial because after that we will be able to transfer the grant money). For the duration of the formalities we will provide you with a place to stay and some pocket money.

3. We will work with you and with experts from chosen big company on a plan how to implement your product or service in their company. Base on that plan we will transfer you money and provide services of experts (for e.g. lawyers, tax advisors, business advisors, marketing specialists, technical experts, etc.).

4. For 4 months you will work with experts from big company, visit their offices and factories, production lines, laboratories and work on test implementation. We will assist you on every step and help you if there any problems appear.

5. We will provide you possibilities to attend the biggest conferences in Poland and organize big Demo Day at the end of the program.

6. When program ends, we will present you with possibilities of investment from our network (VCs and Angel Investors) or EU programs available in Poland in post-acceleration.

7. After finishing acceleration we will help you to sign a paid agreement with big company you cooperated with.

Partners

We are working with

Our vision of acceleration program is based on synergy between startups and big companies. We want to accelerate the scaling of innovative products by taking advantage of potential of established enterprises. Check out the big companies that are working with us in this acceleration program:

Grupa Azoty

The second largest producer of mineral fertilisers and third of the compound fertilisers in European Union, 5th in the ranking of most attractive global chemical companies for investors in BCG report and 32nd most influential entity on the global chemical market in ICIS TOP 40 Power Players.

Olimp Laboratories

Polish pharmaceutical company, one of the largest producers on the European market of supplements and OTC drugs. Only in the last 10 years it has invested 315 million PLN in new technologies and development.